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Originally Posted by Brion Toss
This one has the potential to be an endless thread, like the one that Dan linked us to. My take is that most of the people who posted over there were doing what worked for them, but I didn't hear any compelling analysis about the details.
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Sadly, what is typical of most of such endless threads is that people aren't good at
paying attention to details and making sound arguments. Helpful points in this thread
are the materials (relative cleat size & nature of cordage) and the purpose (active
sailing vs. mooring--which was the OP's question, quickly forgotten by some).
A couple posters there did raise a good point which got no answer: if the problem
with the locking hitch is that it will be prone to jam tight, how would its absence
be at all beneficial? (The converse, of a locking hitch being superfluous, has a
good response from Brion--there are who-knows-what things that might intiate some
loosening.)
But a key difference of this "OX..." is the "O": from a comment mid-stream of that
thread comes confirmation(?) that what is often recommended, and is in
Apprentice
is what would be logically called a "C". I.e., that the symbolized sequence of
structures building the hitch, ALL return to the initial contact point (call it point A).
--that the "O" is a full circle, under from the initial pull under the far cleat ear all
the away around BACK TO IT, & under for then the "X"s. Whereas what I've seen
is under far, under near, AND THEN into an X, which will finish with the locked end
being aligned more or less with the loaded part but locked to the other ear.
I've not been able to find this RYA method put into images (and then there must
be the question of the accuracy of such images to intent!); in fact, I've gotten
no Search results on the RYA site for 'OXO', and few for knots. (But one quote,
re RYA instruction, of interest:
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Missing from all contemporary courses is rope work, bends,hitches and splices, I've lost count of how many fender and mooring lines I have spliced for "modern" skippers, many of whom are "qualified" but at least they have a desire to make their craft look like boats!
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